My arrival by train to the lake bar
Is a little squared metal kiosk,
With several white tables on its terrace
It hosts me on red chairs under its wooden porch.
Spirited good mornings evenings and nights
Greet me with … CONTINUE READING »
Unable to leave
Loving you unsettles me, dismantles all
My walls a brick at the time as I
Frantically struggle to recompose,
The smithereens of me for my abode
Not to crumble down and I to fall.
Loving you dismays me, baffles my … CONTINUE READING »
Unafraid
Venturing into wild woods a declivity
Framed by sheltering trees and threatening thorns,
Through a quasi-undiscernible track past footsteps
Guide me to a rocky berm of pebbles galore.
Diverse shapes and colours build hypnotic structures
Monkeylike I toil on them … CONTINUE READING »
Countercurrent
My dear fish I am finning upstream
I finally left the ocean for the inland
I am embarking on a new adventure
Surrounded by immensity, tall trees
Reaching for the sky frame the river on both sides,
Earth is covered … CONTINUE READING »
Falling
Take me to where the stars do not shine
Where the darkness of nothingness springs
Colours invisible to my blind eyes, explain
Empty space to me elucidate the concept
Perplexing my mind, tell me what complete
Silence sounds like, describe … CONTINUE READING »
Falling
Take me to where the stars do not shine
Where the darkness of nothingness springs
Colours invisible to my blind eyes, explain
Empty space to me elucidate the concept
Perplexing my mind, tell me what complete
Silence sounds like, describe … CONTINUE READING »
Money
A grain of sand glittered afore the eyes
Of a curious creature holding solely ambitions
Ideas of grandeur, of possession, a stick a stone
A piece of gold for knaves to enchant fools.
Delineating lines on lands we built our … CONTINUE READING »
Money
A grain of sand glittered afore the eyes
Of a curious creature holding solely ambitions
Ideas of grandeur, of possession, a stick a stone
A piece of gold for knaves to enchant fools.
Delineating lines on lands we built our … CONTINUE READING »
Mea culpa
To all those whom I allowed to hurt me
I beg your pardon, I humbly apologise.
I ask forgiveness for naively consenting
To be your accomplice in your malaise.
I was brought up to be a lady, a kind one,… CONTINUE READING »
Tiananmen
Thirty years not to forget dissent
The courage to rebel demand to be heard
Stand up for a right to be recognised
Humans forlornly pleading for freedom.
Spring blossoms uprising students repressed
Unallowed to express, censored by battle tanks,
Hopes … CONTINUE READING »